“This is the president’s vision. My function, really, as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters,” Navarro said. He compared the White House to the successful New England Patriots football team. “The owner, the coach, and the quarterback are all the president. The rest of us are all interchangeable parts.”

It never ceases to amaze me how openly corrupt the Trump administration is, and how so very many of his supporters -- many of whom were practically frothing at the mouth over Clinton's supposed corruption -- are perfectly okay with that.

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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“I would like for someone to challenge him,” Ms. Rains said, as she sipped wine recently with two other evangelical Christian women at a suburban restaurant north of Dallas. “But it needs to be somebody that’s strong enough to go against the Democrats.”

So, Trump has fired Rex Tillerson -- in a tweet. He did so very soon after Tillerson said something less than entirely nice about Russia. I'm sure that's entirely coincidental.

To replace Tillerson as Secretary of State, Trump has nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Pompeo has described the War on Terror as a clash between Christianity and Islam. Pompeo, a former far Right Congressman from Kansas, received more money from the Koch brothers than any other Congressman in 2010.

Trump also fired his personal aide, Johnny McEntee. Apparently, he was fired for failing a background check -- that would explain why the Secret Service unceremoniously escorted him out, not even allowing him to clean out his desk.

Don't worry about Johnny, though. The Trump Campaign has already announced that McEntee "will re-join the team and serve as the new Senior Advisor for campaign operations based in D.C."

Golly. If I didn't know better, I'd think that the Trump Administration was deeply corrupt, and wasn't even trying very hard to hide that fact.

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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing told CNN.

So final summary: 1) The president is bragging that he made stuff up with a foreign leader; 2) He is claiming his made-up thing was then magically proven correct; 3) His explanation for why he was actually correct is fictional; 4) He’s still currently incorrect.

Oh, I don't know, maybe call it a partnership. A partnership of pacific nations. Across the Pacific Partnership or something. That's a bit clunky, maybe if someone could come up with something snappier all those nations who are currently being threatened by the national equivalent of a drunk abusive daddy would just JUMP at the chance to do as told.

At this point in time I think you're either running from the inevitable explosion that is the Trump presidency or you are trying to grab just a few more pieces of expensive silverware before skittering off.